#sonoma county
Savoring fall figs from our mission fig tree that survived the fire and watching the new house take shape.
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Opa’s Garden super bloom! Golden poppies (Eschscholtzia californica), the state flower of California, are blooming intensely across the state this spring after all the winter rains we had. Such a beautiful sight to see them take over the space where Opa’s Garden was too! For those who are curious, we will not be including the garden as part of our rebuilding yet. Our main focus at this time is to rebuild the house. There are still other obstacles to growing a garden again which we will tackle down the line (i.e. no water lines, garden bed frames need to be rebuilt, and we don’t have fences built so the garden would be very vulnerable to wildlife in the area). In the meantime, we are enjoying the volunteer plants and flowers that are bringing beauty to this space again.
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Such a gift to be able to harvest tomatoes and pick sunflowers from our property still this summer.
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A pumpkin plant on the property that already has vines several feet long and a pretty good sized pumpkin growing on it. (It amazes me that these are all growing without any water, other than what they are getting naturally through the ground or dew in the mornings.)
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One of the many tomato plants that’s popped up around the property on its own that even has tomatoes growing on it!
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Sonoma County eyes looser restrictions for yurts, tiny homes
Sonoma County is considering updating its building standards and enforcement policies to allow residents in unincorporated areas to live in tiny homes, yurts and other dwellings that may not be strictly up to code.
The Board of Supervisors, last week, directed county planning staff to come up with regulations for more “flexible” housing options in the face of the region’s intensifying affordable housing shortage.
The move comes largely in response to growing concerns in rural west county about code enforcement officials ordering people to vacate small dwellings in backyards and on private property that have been deemed uninhabitable.
You wonder why it is that I came home -
I figured out where I belong
But it’s too late to come on home.
Are all those bridges now old stone?
But it’s too late to come on home.
Can the city forgive? I hear its sad song…
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Some things you let go in order to live.
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[Image ID: Digital painting of a lot of Oak Titmice and Bushtits (Pacific) on a suet feeder with “Calm Your Tits” carved and painted on the roof. /end ID]
This is now in my Redbubble store and ALL profits will be going to Native Songbird Care & Conservation located in Sonoma County, CA
They do wonderful work and your donation will help a lot of songbirds!
Links in the reblog to get around Tumblr’s war on links hopefully.
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